Shafts on Shot Quality

[iacas]

Today, as part of a little experiment, I hit some Titleist 735 6-irons with different shafts. I began with my current shaft, the True Temper Dynamic Gold S300. Then I tried the Nippon NS Pro 970 (a Titleist-branded Nippon shaft available as a custom order ) that weighs 20-30 grams less. The results? See if you can guess which is which:



Needless to say, the impact (no pun intended) shaft choice had on quality of ballstriking was made very evident to me.

[Rafcin]

I'd guess Nipo is all over the face - easier to achieve it with very light shaft.
what's interesting though - if you did catch it on the center - which ones were longer?

[iacas]

I'd guess Nipo is all over the face - easier to achieve it with very light shaft.

Almost exactly the same. The Nippon threw the ball up a little higher than I'd like and I think it lost distance going up and not out. I don't exactly wormburn my irons, either, so that Nippon was

really high relative to a normal 6I.